Constant and Changing (kryber)

Chapter 43: Nu ABO

After the nerve wracking feelings that she experienced before the London Korean Festival performance, Krystal was feeling very relaxed now. The relief of a successful performance translated into a carefree attitude, almost one of child-like innocence. Krystal could see that the other members felt the same way. After returning to their hotel suite for the night, the members were somehow full of energy and they chased each other playfully from room to room like children, shouting and laughing with abandon. They dragged every blanket, pillow, and comforter into the living room and began to set up makeshift sleeping bags on the floor.

It felt nice to hold this impromptu slumber party with each other. Many months had passed since the last time the four of them were together like this, and no one wanted to sleep in their own separate beds tonight. Victoria was headed back China tomorrow while Amber, Luna, and Krystal were flying back home to Korea, but no one cared about their future schedules. Tonight was just for them, and they planned to spend as much of it together as they could.

As Victoria and Amber piled the last of the pillows in the center of their blankets on the floor, Krystal fell backwards on top of them with a mischievous smile on her face. She waved her hands back and forth like she was making a snow angel, pushing pillows in every which way.

"Yah!" Luna cried out, picking up the nearest pillow and hitting Krystal lightly on the face with it. "What are you, five?"

Krystal smiled and pulled Luna towards her. The older girl tumbled on top of the pillows with a giggle and joined the maknae in making snow angels in the bedding.

Luna had accused her of being five, but Krystal was now twenty. Time moved faster than Krystal had realized over the last six years, since the day she and her members became f(x). Krystal remembered moving in with her members for the first time as a teenager, nervous but excited about the new life she was starting with them. From begin a fourteen year old girl playing her members to being a twenty year old adult now playing with her sisters, Krystal found it funny how not much had changed since then. Even now, Krystal was still nervous but excited about starting a new life as f(4) with her members.

Victoria brought over a shopping bag full of snacks, sweets, and drinks and dumped its entire contents into the sleeping area. Three sets of eyes widened gleefully at the mountain of junk food in front them, and they turned to Victoria for permission before plunging their greedy hands into the treasure.

How long had it been since they last went on such a large scale snack run like this? They had come a long way since their trainee days where they would escape through the back door of the SM building and run over the hill to the nearby convenience store in pitch-black darkness to fuel their late-night practices. Now that they had earned their fame, no longer did they need to sneak in snacks or use a poor hoobae trainee to order kimbap for them. They could enjoy their well deserved snacks every now and then, like tonight.

Krystal opened a pack of pepero, put a cookie stick into her mouth nonchalantly. Without warning, Amber, who sat next to her, lunged closer and bit off half the stick in Krystal's mouth in one fell swoop. The younger girl pulled back in surprise, nearly dropping the half that was still in her mouth.

"What the hell, Am?" Krystal cried, smacking her girlfriend hard on the shoulder in embarrassment. Her cheeks felt warm from the unexpected action, and the laughter of her three fellow members wasn't helping the situation.

"OK, you guys can't tease me for getting embarrassed around Soojungie anymore," Amber said with a smirk. "She gets just as embarrassed as I do."

"All the more reason to keep teasing the both of you," Victoria joked, wrapping an arm around the pouting younger girl.